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Spotlight Day, 2019

Spotlight Day, 2019 don't be surprised to see people of all kinds wearing a red X on the back of their hand.  But you know me... I've always got to think further and more outside the box than that...

Today is national Spotlight on Slavery Day.  Seems straight forward and simple, right?  Human trafficking – sex trafficking, etc.  So don’t be surprised to see people of all kinds wearing a red X on the back of their hand.  But you know me… I’ve always got to think further and more outside the box than that.

Let’s start here:  “…no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother,…

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Thanking God For The Pain

Thanking God For The Pain Last week I was struck ill.  Not just a little cough or flu, but seriously sickly.  Complete with excrutiating pain...

Last week I was struck ill.  Not just a little cough or flu, but seriously sickly.  Complete with excruciating pain.

Because I have stage three chronic kidney disease, every one thought I was just passing a kidney stone.  No big deal right?  Except if you have CKD it can damage your kidney function even further.  And I was just sure it was and afraid of going to the hospital to find out.

And the…

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Let It Be

Unusual Circumstances As most of you know, my book came out a couple of weeks ago. Because it's Christmas time, I have been looking for things to post about Christmas and reading those verses...

As most of you know, my book came out a couple of weeks ago. Because it’s Christmas time, I have been looking for things to post about Christmas and reading those verses in Luke about Mary’s story in all of this.

And my friend is helping me write a study guide that goes along with my book.  So we were discussing the fact that Mary unequivocally said yes to God and His plan.

I started thinking…

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Handel's Messiah Part Four - Worthy Is The Lamb

Handel's Messiah Part Four - Worthy Is The Lamb So in our last song from Handel's Messiah, we go to the throne room scene in heaven in Revelation chapter five.  All of creation...

So in our last song from Handel’s Messiah, we go to the throne room scene in heaven in Revelation chapter five.  All of creation in heaven has been watching as the bowls and the seals have been revealed one by painstaking one.  God is giving the last chances for anyone on earth who would believe in Jesus to come and for their name to be written in the Lamb’s book of life.

And we come to the…

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Offense, Fruit and Gifts

Offense, Fruit and Gifts Preface:  I am doing a series on Offense over in my Facebook group, Going Beyond Shame and Guilt.  This is what popped up today and you can see how it developed into this post, so I am sharing it with you...

Preface:  I am doing a series on Offense over in my Facebook group, Going Beyond Shame and Guilt.  This is what popped up today and you can see how it developed into this post, so I am sharing it with you all, too.

Obviously this one is our “offense” post for today. But it’s so much more than that. Offense can cause us to be in a false sense of security because of our gifts. This says that we…

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Handel's Messiah Part 3 - THE Hallelujah Chorus

Handel's Messiah Part 3 - THE Hallelujah Chorus My favorite of the all!  The Hallelujah Chorus!  If you don't know the story behind it, you will laugh a little at this. So Handel and the musicians of the day were to perform the...

My favorite of the all!  The Hallelujah Chorus!  If you don’t know the story behind it, you will laugh a little at this.

So Handel and the musicians of the day were to perform the entire Messiah for the King.  They had practiced and practiced for this special occasion.  Well, if you’ve never sat through the entire Messiah, it is a bit long.  In fact it’s really long.  So they got to the…

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Back To The Word

Back To The Word So, I am finding out more and more as I go along that most people really want to have time for God.  We want to have time to pray, really pray.  And time to dig deeper into His Word on a daily basis.  But, we have...

So, I am finding out more and more as I go along that most people really want to have time for God.  We want to have time to pray, really pray.  And time to dig deeper into His Word on a daily basis.  But, we have been taught that God is patient.  So since our kids, our husbands, our jobs, our very culture isn’t patient, we procrastinate on digging deeper.

So I will be starting a twelve-day…

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Handel's Messiah Part 2 - Since By Man Came Death

Handel’s Messiah Part 2 – Since By Man Came Death

Hope you liked the song in part one.  If you missed it, you can read it here.  I love that the songs are comprised of Bible verses and not only tell the story of Christmas, as we call it, but also lay out the gospel plan of salvation for everyone.

A tad bit of history:  The king asked Handle to write a composition for Easter.  Handel lived at the same time as Bach.  But Handel was a bit more…

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Handle's Messiah Part 1 - All We Like Sheep

Handle's Messiah Part 1 - All We Like Sheep I was especially impacted by my freshman year's selection of songs we learned along with some other Christian High Schools and we all sang together.  I'd only ever heard the Hallelujah...

For those of you who don’t know, I went to a Christian High school and was in choir.  I loved it so much.  I was especially impacted by my freshman year’s selection of songs we learned along with some other Christian High Schools and we all sang together.  I’d only ever heard the Hallelujah Chorus up to this point, so some of these other songs really made me love this entire work.

So this year,…

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God's Word and the Holidays

God's Word and the Holidays NEW BIBLE STUDY: We wanted to go through the holidays without missing God's Word. So we have chosen a study with very little homework so we can both enjoy the holidays and dig deeper into God's word...

NEW BIBLE STUDY: We wanted to go through the holidays without missing God’s Word. So we have chosen a study with very little homework so we can both enjoy the holidays and dig deeper into God’s word.  Join us starting November 30th at 10AM PST. For more information on Babylon from the breathe series by Shawna Songer Gaines, or to sign up, click the link below.

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Finish All You Have Started

Finish All You Have Started No, I’m not talking about us… goodness, my Momma was the greatest at starting to read books.  She had over thirty books in her bookshelves in varying degrees of progress...

No, I’m not talking about us… goodness, my Momma was the greatest at starting to read books.  She had over thirty books in her bookshelves in varying degrees of progress.  Each had a bookmark in it.  And one day, my three-year old at the time decided she was going to collect all Grammie’s bookmarks for her.  And shoot, there goes all her progress in each book.  Like she was ever going to go back…

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A Hot Mess, Part Two

A Hot Mess, Part Two So, in recap from part one, being a hot mess isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  We have all been there. It’s what we all have in common; what bring us together. And it’s what brought God near and...

So, in recap from part one, being a hot mess isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  We have all been there. It’s what we all have in common; what bring us together.

And it’s what brought God near and Jesus down to save us.

So we get the idea in our heads that we will live… let me hear you say it with me… happily ever after.  I mean isn’t that what Disney tells us? We find the handsome prince, get…

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A Hot Mess, Part Three

A Hot Mess, Part Three Let me start by pointing something out: it doesn’t matter if the mess was handed to you or forced on you by someone else, and it doesn’t matter if the mess was of your own making.  A hot mess is a hot mess...

So, recapping once again, our hot mess is what brought God near.  God knows what we need even in the middle of our mess and He’s just waiting for us to come and tell Him how we are feeling and that we need His help.

Now, we are going to talk about a couple of decisions we have to make when we are faced with a hot mess.

Let me start by pointing something out: it doesn’t matter if the mess was…

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A Hot Mess, Part Two

A Hot Mess, Part Two So, in recap from part one, being a hot mess isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  We have all been there. It’s what we all have in common; what bring us together. And it’s what brought God near and...

So, in recap from part one, being a hot mess isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  We have all been there. It’s what we all have in common; what bring us together.

And it’s what brought God near and Jesus down to save us.

So we get the idea in our heads that we will live… let me hear you say it with me… happily ever after.  I mean isn’t that what Disney tells us? We find the handsome prince, get…

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A Hot Mess Part One

A Hot Mess Part One ...we are surrounded by some of the finest hot messes ever...

Have you ever really thought about where this phrase, ‘a hot mess’ came from?  Interestingly enough, I watched a sermon just the other day that spoke about its origins.

In the 19th century, it had to do with a hot meal.  In the mess hall.  Funny how back then we equated good food for a mess.  And then in the 20th century, the military began using it as ‘a dangerous environment’.  Like when they…

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Are You Offended?

Are You Offended? Are you offended by something or someone?  If not, you are for sure in the minority in our culture today. I read a quote yesterday from Bobby Schuller. It said, “We’ve taught people to be offended instead...

Are you offended by something or someone?  If not, you are for sure in the minority in our culture today.

I read a quote yesterday from Bobby Schuller. It said, “We’ve taught people to be offended instead of resilient.” And of course my thoughts ran away with me. Naturally there are things that are just offensive and you can’t get around that. But people have become ridiculous in our culture…

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You're Worth More Than Gold

You're Worth More Than Gold I can’t believe that yet another person has committed suicide. I have not experienced the darkness that could drive a person to do such a thing. That’s all a testimony to God’s amazing grace. I sit here...

I can’t believe that yet another person has committed suicide. I have not experienced the darkness that could drive a person to do such a thing. That’s all a testimony to God’s amazing grace. I sit here at my computer and just weep over all the others out there, who having seen a celebrity do this, now think it’s an open door for them as well. I say this because in 2014 when Robin Williams took…

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